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Arkady Renko returns in a new mystery about crime and corruption in the cold, dark, impenetrable landscape of modern-day Moscow.
Arkady Renko
Simon & Schuster
August 2010
On Sale: August 17, 2010
Featuring: Arkady Renko
352 pages
ISBN: 0743276744
EAN: 9780743276740
Hardcover
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A passenger train hurtling through the night. An unwed
teenage mother headed to Moscow to seek a new life. A
cruel-hearted soldier looking furtively, forcibly, for sex.
An infant disappearing without a trace. So begins Martin Cruz Smith's masterful Three
Stations, a suspenseful, intricately constructed novel
featuring Investigator Arkady Renko. For the last three
decades, beginning with the trailblazing Gorky Park,
Renko (and Smith) have captivated readers with detective
tales set in Russia. Renko is the ironic, brilliantly
observant cop who finds solutions to heinous crimes when
other lawmen refuse to even acknowledge that crimes have
occurred. He uses his biting humor and intuitive leaps to
fight not only wrongdoers but the corrupt state apparatus as
well. In Three Stations, Renko's skills are put to their
most severe test. Though he has been technically suspended
from the prosecutor's office for once again turning up
unpleasant truths, he strives to solve a last case: the
death of an elegant young woman whose body is found in a
construction trailer on the perimeter of Moscow's main rail
hub. It looks like a simple drug overdose to everyone—except
to Renko, whose examination of the crime scene turns up some
inexplicable clues, most notably an invitation to Russia's
premier charity ball, the billionaires' Nijinksy Fair. Thus
a sordid death becomes interwoven with the lifestyles of
Moscow's rich and famous, many of whom are clinging to their
cash in the face of Putin's crackdown on the very oligarchs
who placed him in power. Renko uncovers a web of death, money, madness and a
kidnapping that threatens the woman he is coming to love and
the lives of children he is desperate to protect. In
Three Stations, Smith produces a complex and haunting
vision of an emergent Russia's secret underclass of street
urchins, greedy thugs and a bureaucracy still paralyzed by
power and fear.
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